James wallace



(No Model.)

J. WALLACE.

TOY

No. 420,709. Patented Feb. 4, 1890.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WALLACE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOY.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 420,709, dated February4., 1890. Application filed August 28, 1889. Serial No. 322,260. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may ooncern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs WALLACE, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedToy, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in toys, and has for its objectto provide a wheeled toy so constructed that a pin-wheel, a figure, orother ornament will be revolved as the toy is drawn forward or pushedbackward; and the invention consists in the novel construction andcombination of the several parts, as Will be hereinafter fully setforth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation on line a; as of Fig. 2. Fig. 2is aplan View; and Fig. 3 is a central Vertical section through the bodyof the toy, the drive-wheels, and a portion of the axle upon which thewheels are mounted.

The axle 10 is reduced in diameter at the extremities to provide theshoulders 11, the length of the reduced portions of the axle beinggreater at one end than at the other. At the center of the axle acircular opening is produced, surrounded at the top and bottom by acollar 12, said collar preferably constituting an integral portion ofsaid axle, as illustrated in Fig. 3. Upon each reduced end of the axle adrive-wheel 13 is loosely mounted, the hubs of which drive-wheelscontact with the shoulders 11, and upon the inner end of the hub of thewheel mounted upon the longer reduced end of the axle a pinion 14 isformed or attached. The pin-wheel 15, or other ornament to be revolved,is firmly secured to the upper surface of ablock 16, preferably providedwith cylindrical sides, and to the under face of said block aspur-wheel'17 is horizontally secured, the teeth whereof ex-' tendperpendicularly downward to mesh with the pinion 14. The block 16 ismounted torevolve in the axle 10 by securing to the under face of thespur-Wheel 17 at the center a sleeve or post 18, of a diameter toloosely fit in the central opening of the axle. This sleeve or postextends below the lower collar 12 of the axle-opening, and is preventedfrom being Withdrawn from the opening by attaching to the lower end aband or ring 19, or screwing a nut thereon, as in practice may be foundmost desirable.

The ornament to be revolved, illustrated in the drawings, consists, asaforesaid, in a pin- 'wheel 15, and in connection with said pin- Wheel,when used, I preferably make use of a series of disks 20, painted orotherwise colored, of different diameters, and arranged one above theother, as best illustrated in Fig. 1; but I desire it to be distinctlyunderstood that I do not confine myself to the specific ornament shownand described, as other ornaments may be substituted therefor withoutdeparting from the spirit of theinvention.

To the front of the axle 10, at that portion in which the opening ismade, a socket 21, of any approved construction, is secured, and in saidsocket a handle 22 is introduced.

In operation it is obvious that asthe toy is drawn forward or pushedbackward by means of the handle 22 the rotary motion of the wheel havingthe pinion 1d attached will, through the medium of the gear-wheel17,in1- part a similar movement to the block 16, whereby any ornamentcarried by the said block will be given a rotary motion.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with the axle 10, havacentral vertical opening and a socket 21 on the front Wall of saidopening, the wheels on said axle, one of which has a pinion, and thehandle secured at its inner end Within said socket, of the horizontalgear-wheel 17, meshing into said pinion and having a central postturning in said vertical opening, and the block 16 on the said wheel 17,substantially as set forth.

2. The herein-described toy, comprising the axle, the wheels thereon,the rotary block mounted on the axle and rotated from one of the Wheels,a horizontal pin-wheel on the upper faceof the block, and the disks 20on the pin above the pin-wheel, substantially as set forth.

JAMES WALLACE.

